User blog:Semerone/Fair Use

The Fair Use blog is here to explain how the fair use clause is handled on Kishin Douji Zenki Wikia.

This blog is and will be build, as we talk about the topic of fair use on this wiki.

Why I created this blog
I created this blog due to Zenki's most recent comment on Volume 1's article.

"Zenki: "I feel like this article and the other manga volumes' article will soon receive a major overhaul. XD

Are we even goin' to keep your old summaries, or are you goin' to feature your translations here? If you did, you could make the tabbers in a way, so that the chapters could be read like a real manga! X3

That would be awesome! :D

I dunno, if this is possible though, as I know that placing a tabber inside a tabber definitely doesn't work... :/

But if the other people post their translations on DeviantArt under the fair use license, I bet we can do it here, too! (after all, some other users agreed, that this works with audio, so why not with translations, too?)""

on 19:25, June 28, 2017 Zenki's comment has been moved here, to explain some things and to prevent the upcomming of any suspicion concerning legal matters on our wiki

Fair Use on this wiki
In response to Zenki's comment, I immediately decided to refresh my knowledge on the fair use clause, so I could give him a proper answer and to avoid legal issues.

"Semerone: "I just checked the fair use law and...

Eventhough, it would be very much possible to place the images, so they can be read like the real manga...

We would violate the law, if we posted the entire translation here on the wiki.

So once Goki and I have finished the translation, I will post them in a zipped format on the file hosting service, so we can share our translation with other fans.

This way, the translation will be...


 * 1) of educational value towards readers, that can't read Chinese or Japanese and thus would lack out on the full experience of the Kishin Douji Zenki series otherwise (Purpose and character of the use)
 * 2) presented for free (this means, we don't make any profit from it)
 * 3) literature (Nature of the copyrighted work)
 * 4) an excerpt (we will post it separated into the individual chapters, so it won't meet the criteria for being a full work)
 * 5) likely won't have any negative effect on the market, as it encourages fans to buy the original work (after all, I bought these items too, so our translation and wiki actually end up supporting the cause of the creators of the series)

And due to these reasons, we aren't violating the law.""

on 19:59, June 28, 2017 Especially, I, as the wiki founder have a responsibily to make sure, that this wiki doesn't have any content, that would violate the law, so here's the answer on whether we ended up violating the law or not and it's fortunately a good one: "Our content doesn't violate any laws." Thank you for reading. Greetings Semerone (aka the founder of this wiki)

Original post by Semerone on 18:01 2017-06-28

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Original post by Goki on 18:38 2017-07-07